That's what I thought, and I thought it was just me. I'm glad you agree with me, I thought I must be odd or something. Let's ask our resident expert on this. @Equation Your thoughts on this please.
2020/2021 Tokyo Summer Olympics
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That's what I thought, and I thought it was just me. I'm glad you agree with me, I thought I must be odd or something. Let's ask our resident expert on this. @Equation Your thoughts on this please.
More ethnic Chinese competing at Olympics in the past. Chinese Canadian weightlifter.
25 Chinese American and Chinese Canadian Olympic Calibre Athletes #18 of 25: CANADIAN Chun Hon Chan made history by arguably being the first recorded Chinese Canadian to compete at the Olympics when he participated in the 1968 Mexico Olympics as part of the Canadian Olympic Weightlifting team as a 33 year old. Four years later he would go on to represent Canada at the 1972 Munich Olympics at age 37. He was the Canadian Bantamweight weightlifting Champion from 1963-1971 and at the time held five Canadian weightlifting records. He also competed for Canada in many other International competitions including the Pan American games and the Commonwealth games where he won Bronze Medals at both games. At one point in the snatch he ranked in the top 6 in the world in his weight class. Chun Hon Chan not only shattered early stereotypes of Asian mens' strength and body types, but at 5’ 3’’ and 120 pounds, his story at heart is of a man overcoming his limitations through sheer willpower…all the way to the Olympic stage. Impressively, he is quite possibly the very first Chinese North American to have competed at the Olympics in the sport of weightlifting.
Born in 1935 in Hong Kong, he would later immigrate to Montreal, Canada when he was around 20 years old and would become trilingual in Chinese, English and French as he worked hard to make a living at a Chinese restaurant. In his spare time he would work out at the YMCA where this then-slightly framed man’s life would take a dramatic turn and gain strength he never knew he had. He would later state to the Montreal Star paper in the July 8, 1972 edition:
“I am small, short. This used to cause me difficulty when I was younger. One day I was fooling around with the weights at the YMCA and a coach came along. He gave me some tips on technique and style and I began to enjoy it. Then I began to think, ‘So I am small. That does not mean I can’t be Strong.’ And that was the start of it.”
Back then, there was little government support for athletes like Chun Hon Chan and the majority of his training was self-funded. Further, he had to somehow find time to train between demanding shifts of a restaurant work schedule which limited his training time and eliminated any prospect of a social life. He would quite often try and steal time away to train in the afternoon while later working a grueling night shift at the restaurant. This was compounded by the fact that in the months prior to the 1972 Munich Olympics he had finally saved enough money to purchase his own restaurant which became a 12-14 hour daily grind from which he then had to find spare time to train. Even when he developed an abdominal hernia from weightlifting, he refused to get surgery as he feared it would take away rare and precious training time for the Olympics; so through his own initiative, he somehow found a way to push it back in painfully by himself.
Ever committed and despite his exhausting work schedule, he somehow always found the drive and motivation to train hard because as he would say, “I always consider it a great honor and thrill to be able to represent my new Country of Canada.” At International weightlifting meets when people would ask him “are you Chinese or Japanese,” he would always enjoy seeing the surprise on their face when he replied to them he was Canadian and was proud of the fact that they respected it.
Our thanks to Chun Hon Chan’s daughter Debbie for sharing this little known and incredible story of her late Father who was an early pioneer for many Asian North Americans in International sports and helped to break early stereotypes in showing the World just how strong Asian North Americans are in more ways than one.
25 Chinese American and Chinese Canadian Olympic Calibre Athletes #18 of 25: CANADIAN Chun Hon Chan made history by arguably being the first recorded Chinese Canadian to compete at the Olympics when he participated in the 1968 Mexico Olympics as part of the Canadian Olympic Weightlifting team as a 33 year old. Four years later he would go on to represent Canada at the 1972 Munich Olympics at age 37. He was the Canadian Bantamweight weightlifting Champion from 1963-1971 and at the time held five Canadian weightlifting records. He also competed for Canada in many other International competitions including the Pan American games and the Commonwealth games where he won Bronze Medals at both games. At one point in the snatch he ranked in the top 6 in the world in his weight class. Chun Hon Chan not only shattered early stereotypes of Asian mens' strength and body types, but at 5’ 3’’ and 120 pounds, his story at heart is of a man overcoming his limitations through sheer willpower…all the way to the Olympic stage. Impressively, he is quite possibly the very first Chinese North American to have competed at the Olympics in the sport of weightlifting.
Born in 1935 in Hong Kong, he would later immigrate to Montreal, Canada when he was around 20 years old and would become trilingual in Chinese, English and French as he worked hard to make a living at a Chinese restaurant. In his spare time he would work out at the YMCA where this then-slightly framed man’s life would take a dramatic turn and gain strength he never knew he had. He would later state to the Montreal Star paper in the July 8, 1972 edition:
“I am small, short. This used to cause me difficulty when I was younger. One day I was fooling around with the weights at the YMCA and a coach came along. He gave me some tips on technique and style and I began to enjoy it. Then I began to think, ‘So I am small. That does not mean I can’t be Strong.’ And that was the start of it.”
Back then, there was little government support for athletes like Chun Hon Chan and the majority of his training was self-funded. Further, he had to somehow find time to train between demanding shifts of a restaurant work schedule which limited his training time and eliminated any prospect of a social life. He would quite often try and steal time away to train in the afternoon while later working a grueling night shift at the restaurant. This was compounded by the fact that in the months prior to the 1972 Munich Olympics he had finally saved enough money to purchase his own restaurant which became a 12-14 hour daily grind from which he then had to find spare time to train. Even when he developed an abdominal hernia from weightlifting, he refused to get surgery as he feared it would take away rare and precious training time for the Olympics; so through his own initiative, he somehow found a way to push it back in painfully by himself.
Ever committed and despite his exhausting work schedule, he somehow always found the drive and motivation to train hard because as he would say, “I always consider it a great honor and thrill to be able to represent my new Country of Canada.” At International weightlifting meets when people would ask him “are you Chinese or Japanese,” he would always enjoy seeing the surprise on their face when he replied to them he was Canadian and was proud of the fact that they respected it.
Our thanks to Chun Hon Chan’s daughter Debbie for sharing this little known and incredible story of her late Father who was an early pioneer for many Asian North Americans in International sports and helped to break early stereotypes in showing the World just how strong Asian North Americans are in more ways than one.
If they have problem with Mao's badge, many other people have problems with cross too. We can begin to go after the national flags with crosses on them such as the Union Jack with three.
AssassinsMace
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Pardon it wasn't swimming it was running.
FriedRiceNSpice
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The women's basketball game against Serbia was so heartbreaking. China kept up the entire first half, dominated the third quarter to get a solid 9 point lead, survived a 11-0 run by Serbia, and held on till the last 2 minutes of the game.
They performed so well under pressure until the very end.
The flow and tempo of the game reminds me a lot of the last game I played in high school during the state tournament.
They performed so well under pressure until the very end.
The flow and tempo of the game reminds me a lot of the last game I played in high school during the state tournament.
Today will be a crucial day for those keeping watch/placing bets on the medal tally
6 athletics finals, all of which the US has chances to medal in especially shot put and 110m hurdles, as well as 1 boxing final (D Ragan vs ROC) and 1 wrestling final (DM Taylor vs iran)
Semi-finals in basketball (vs aus), baseball (vs skorea), beach volleyball (vs switzerland)
Worst case scenario, US could win 8 golds and enter 3 finals (maybe even sport climbing or 10km swim if they are lucky)
6 athletics finals, all of which the US has chances to medal in especially shot put and 110m hurdles, as well as 1 boxing final (D Ragan vs ROC) and 1 wrestling final (DM Taylor vs iran)
Semi-finals in basketball (vs aus), baseball (vs skorea), beach volleyball (vs switzerland)
Worst case scenario, US could win 8 golds and enter 3 finals (maybe even sport climbing or 10km swim if they are lucky)
So theoretically, every IOC keeps 3 copies of flags for each participating nation at every venue/facility (e.g. main stadium, swimming facility, gymnastics facility, equestrian, etc...) since some venues/facilities can be separated by miles or kilometers, and events can run concurrently.
Realistically, only a handful of nations can do two or three sweeps at the medal podium (China, US, "Russian Moscow" etc...)
What an enormous waste of space. 3 Indian flags...probably moldy from decades of lack of usage.
and his administrations in desperate measures now - 1. Hosting the game against majority of Japanese will, 2. Getting one of the worst opening viewership, 3. Explosion of COVID case in Tokyo, So the only way to salvage their decision to host Olympic is to be on top of medal count , with so many of their "high profile" athletics didn't make the cut(not to mention a medal) and falling so much behind China in medal ranking, the only way now is to rob other nations of Gold through systematic cheatings. He knows only by strong showing in ranking especially against China they may salvage some support from some Japanese for their coming election.